Problem with Atonement shared folder when moved in Outlook 2007
We currently have an application that works with Outlook 2003. To get the owner of the public contacts folder, we simply call: Redemption.RDOSessionClass.GetFolderFromID () and then took that folder and got the RDOFolder.Store.Name property.
However, when you try to do this with a public contacts folder in Outlook 2007, the RDOFolder.Store.Name is null.
Everything works fine for regular contacts and for contacts in "Additional mailboxes" that I added to my account.
The approach mentioned at http://blogs.msdn.com/mstehle/archive/2006/09/07/744798.aspx seems to work, but I would rather not release a new version of our application if I don't have to.
Basically, I want to understand why this works differently and what I can do, if anything, fix it from the server end.
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Edited comment: see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb147715.aspx
Some thoughts ...
Do you have downloaded shared folders (enabled by default in Outlook 2007) enabled in your profile? My initial guess is that the contents of the public contacts folder are cached in your local storage and the store name property is no longer in effect.
Does it actually return null or is it throwing an exception?
Do you have Outlook Spy? An invaluable tool for tracking down these kinds of issues, especially when using Redemption.
Have you posted a message to the Outlook programming discussion group ?
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